Scott Shelley is Still Living the Dream

Ask any budding poker player what their ultimate dream would be and for many it would be to ditch their day job and become a professional poker player. For others it would be to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. Scott Shelley has done both.

Rewind to 2010 and Shelley was working as a customer service representative at PKR but he was still an avid poker player. He and his former colleagues ran a staff tournament where the winner was bought into the £1,000 No Limit Hold’em vent at the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe, which was held in London at the time.

To cut a week long story short, Shelley went on to outlast the 582 crowd to win his first WSOP bracelet and in doing so stopped J.P. Kelly from winning back-to-back titles. Shelly won £133,857 for his victory and a place in poker’s history books.

Since that fateful day, Shelley has been a sponsored pro and is a regular on the UK circuit. He also has a cash in the WPT National Dublin tournament and would be a good bet to add a London cash here by the time this event is done and dusted.

Shelley currently has 25,300 chips.

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